I get it. I'm not into looking like a cop, so that's why I rock the sideburns and keep the barber visits on a pointedly-less-frequent-than-cop schedule.

Can't do anything about the rest of the stubby white dude physique and the no-bullshit demeanor, so I do get mistaken for a cop anyway sometimes. Sucks.

Thing is, it doesn't suck enough to consider removing all doubt by going long in the hair. Because if I fail to knock my hair down, it expands into a kind of unmanageable wad recalling Buzz Osborne. And I look terrible in wizard wear.

Yesterday the name of my cashier at the grocery store was Maga. I don't think she's a Trump supporter who changed her name in support of him, I think that's her actual name, because I remember seeing her before and not thinking much of the name other than not knowing how to pronounce it. Man, talk about stuff that has been appropriated by nazis! This poor woman's name!

The craziest thing was that her last initial was on her name tag as well. TWO Magas working at the same store?

After 1945, outside of Ron Mael, not a terribly popular fashion choice.

Not a protest, just a choice to distance the association.

I don't think your analogy works. Almost no one wears that style of moustache 70 years later. It will always carry a certain connotation. But to some, it'll be OK to go back to their previous hair style when:

steve wrote:Trump [is] out of office or we somehow otherwise crushed the Right.

My point is more that her name is a made up. I mean, it's a real name, I looked it up, but I never seen or heard it before, and MAGA is initials, so it's really quite insane how this woman who basically has a made up name has now been Adolf'd.

May not seem like much in a city, but in a lot of conservative areas just looking a little out or the, I don’t know, BRORDINARY (I apologize), you stick out a lot. If you don’t believe me, go to a gas station in a town of less than a thousand and see the kind of looks you get. It’s like you’re not flying the right flag or you don’t know the right code word. Goes without saying that it’s nowhere near what minorities have to put up with on the daily in white enclaves, but it’s there. I work in an office at an oil refinery on the gulf coast in Texas and I really baffle some people. And I dress pretty conservatively. Event not having all that thick of an accent makes people think I’m from somewhere else. And having a wife that’s not white I heard a lot of gossip and racist shit. These are middle/upper middle class people, mind. I think liberals get the impression that this sort of behavior is the sole domain of some kind of knuckle dragging trailer trash, which is just wrong. Decent people could care less - they just don’t give a shit. I think that’s sort of the point.